Guerrilla Warfare - Kings of Revolution by Peter Polack
19.99 AUD
Category: Warfare | Series: Casemate Short History Ser.
The concept of guerrilla warfare is not decades, but many centuries old, with earliest writing on the subject by Sun Tzu dating back to the 6th Century BC. Some guerrilla tactics are probably as old as the first armed groups of cavemen, being a natural evolution of conflict between groups of disproporti ...Show more
Spitfire - Pilots' Stories by Alfred Price
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
The narrative description and condensed history of the Spitfire's construction, combat career and post-war service, bought together to tell the complete, concise history of the world's most famous aircraft of all time and undoubtedly the finest fighter of World War II. When Spitfire at War first appeare ...Show more
For Valour: Australians Awarded the Victoria Cross by Aaron Pegram, Craig Blanch
79.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
For Valour tells the remarkable stories of the 100 Australians who have been awarded the Victoria Cross for exceptional acts of bravery and self-sacrifice in battle. From Captain Neville Howse of the New South Wales Army Medical Corps in 1900 to Corporal Cameron Baird of the 2nd Commando Regiment in 201 ...Show more
Kangaroo Squadron: American Courage in the Darkest Days of World War II by Gamble Bruce
27.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
In early 1942, while most of the American military was still in disarray from the devastating attacks on Pearl Harbor and the Philippines, a single squadron advanced to the far side of the world to face America's new enemy. Based in Australia with poor supplies and no ground support, the pilots and crew ...Show more
The First World War in 100 Objects - The Story of the Great War Told Through the Objects That Shaped It by Gary Sheffield
50.00 AUD
Category: Warfare
Trace the history of the first truly global conflict through this collection of 100 iconic items, from posters, hats, and a soldier's bible to a battleship, tunnel, and POW camp.Archduke Ferdinand's car. A rum jar. And rifles, helmets, and barbed wire. Written by a renowned expert on World War One, this ...Show more
The Second World War in 100 Objects - The Story of the World's Greatest Conflict Told Through the Objects That Shaped It by Julian Thompson; Allan R. Millett
50.00 AUD
Category: Warfare
See the history of World War II in an entirely new light through 100 carefully chosen items, from the public to the deeply, poignantly personal. Selected by two specialists in military history, the objects in this book offer a unique perspective on the Second World War. Ranging from iconic items like t ...Show more
Bomber Command by Sir Max Hastings
26.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 with a few score primitive W ...Show more
Alone: Britain, Churchill, and Dunkirk: Defeat into Victory by Michael Korda
26.95 AUD
Category: Warfare
No one can evince the drama of what actually happened at Dunkirk in the year 1940 with as "great narrative skill and superb delineation" (David McCullough) as Michael Korda, the historian and legendary book editor. As dramatized in Christopher Nolan's film Dunkirk, May 1940 was a month like no other: Ge ...Show more
The Western Front Diaries of Charles Bean by Peter Burness (Editor)
79.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Australia's official First World War correspondent Charles Bean saw more of the Australian army's activities and battles on the Western Front than anyone. Bean's private wartime diaries, held by the Australian War Memorial, form a unique and personal record of his experiences and observations throughout ...Show more
1914: The Year the World Ended by Paul Ham
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Few years can justly be said to have transformed the earth, yet 1914 did. The story of the outbreak of World War I.In July of 1914, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Russia, Britain, and France were poised to plunge the world into a war that would kill or wound 37 million people, tear down the fabric of society ...Show more
Nameless Names The by Scott Bennett
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Few Australians realise that of the 62,000 anzac soldiers who died in the great war, over one-third are still listed as 'missing'. With no marked graves, the only reminders of their sacrifice are the many names inscribed on ageing war memorials around the world. Bennett deftly tells the story of such m ...Show more
World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide by DK
49.99 AUD
Category: Warfare
Learn everything you need to know about the first war to shake the world and change the course of history.World War I- The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles, through beautifully illustrated and easy to understand timelines. R ...Show more